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These days much of Gold Coast in SE Queensland, is unrecognisable from what it was 50 years ago, let alone when the first European settlers arrived. Cycles of development booms have lead to huge buildings, often at the very edge of the sea, as well as canals. So many canals in fact, that there are more ...

Channel Nine has released the findings of a review into 60 Minutes' botched kidnapping operation in Lebanon. Producer Stephen Rice has been shown the door at and others have been issued formal warnings. While the crew and journalists have returned home on bail, the man they paid for the recovery ...

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The chiefs of Australia's biggest banks will be back in Canberra tomorrow for their twice-yearly parliamentary grilling as they face pressure for not passing on the Reserve Bank's latest rate cuts in-full. The former Turnbull Government launched the hearings three years ago while fending off ...

New York is now home to a proliferation of pencil towers wafer-thin skyscrapers that seem to defy the laws of nature. Theyre chic, expensive to buy into, and critics say theyre also symbols of rising urban inequality. Also, in this episode: are levels of density in our cities making us ill? And the ...

The leak of the Panama Papers let to numerous government inquires and police raids - and helped recover more than $1.2 billion in back-taxes and penalties around the world. Bastian Obermayer, the first contact of the anonymous source, talks about the challenges behind the scenes of this ...